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- ADJUSTABLE TABLE.

No. 274,162. Patented Mar.20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. \IVILSON, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

ADJUSTABLE TABLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters A Application filed November 13, 1882.

supports, and in connecting-braces which are adjustable, and which will support the topin either a horizontal or vertical plane, or at any angle between such planes, and means for securing the same in any desired position.

My object is to furnish a device which may indiflerently be used for a work-table, gametable, blackboard, drafting-board, ease], and

for other purposes of the kind, and which will be economical in cost and simple in construction.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my device, showing the top T adjusted at an angle from the vertical, and the dotted lines show the position of the top and side brace, B, when the top is horizontal and ready Fig. 2 is a vertical section through one of the side supports and braces,

for use as a table.

showing the top T in a perpendicular position. In these figures, S. S are upright supports on each side, slotted inthe central portions of their lengths and connected by ordinary stretchers. B is a braceslotted longitudinally and pivoted ml to the top T. I J J are the journals or gudgeons, set in or secured to the sides of the top T, and having hearings in thesupports S S. A thumb-screw ,for holding the brace in any desired position is shown at t. My device operates asfollows: If it is desired to form a flat top for use as a table of any kind, supposing the position of the part T to be that shown in Fig. 1, the thumbscrew t is loosened and the piece T pushed over from the operator, and it will then occupy the position shown in the dotted lines above,

the brace taking the position shown in the ob-.

lique dotted lines. It will then be in a proper position, and by tightening the thumb-screw will be held firmly. If desired, a slotted brace may be attached to the other side of the table to make it more firm; but if two such braces are used they must be pivoted at opposite Patent No. 274,162, dated March 20, 1883,

(No model.)

ends of the top T; or, again, supposing the device to occupy a position in which the top and has been used, one side of it as a black board, it, now, it is desired to use it as a tapletely, so as to bring the other side up level as a table, and it may be used as such without marring or rubbing out the work on the blackboard. The device may be operated by any one after a little practice; but it must be which is pivoted to the top T, must always pass over the end of the post or support S. For this purpose the pivoted end of the brace B has a shoulder formed on it, as shown in Fig. 2.

By attaching a strip to either end of the top T to form a support, my device may be used as a sort of easel to support pictures or engravin gs.

ters Patent, is-

1. As an article of manufacture, a portable table whose top revolves between two standards or side posts upon journals having bearings therein, one or both of which side posts are slotted longitudinally, and having an adjustable brace slotted longitudinally, pivoted to the top, and united at its other end to one of the side posts by a thumb-screw or its equivalent, whereby the top may be secured in any desired position or angle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A table whose top is supported on bearings in two side supports, and adapted to re volve thereon, and having one or more slotted side braces which are connected with one or more of the side supports, which are slotted to allow the bolt of a thumb-screw connecting the brace and post to move up and down therein for securing the top in any position, substantially as and for the purpose described.

between the posts S S, one or both of which are slotted longitudinally, the slotted brace B, pivoted to the top, and means for holding the brace at any angle and securing it to the side post, substantially as and for the purpose described. 1

.4. The frame-work of a table, having two borne in mind that the end of the braceB,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- 3. The combination of the top T, revolving T stands vertically between the side supports,

ble, in an emergency, it may be revolved comside posts, one or both of them slotted longitudinally,-supporting a top which revolve-s in bearings on such side posts and between them, in combination with one or morelateral braces 5 for sustaining such top at any desired angle, connect d with the side post-s, substantially as described.

JOHN S. WILSON.

Witnesses:

G. P. JACOBS, H. 0. ALLEN. 

